Dearborn v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding jury was justified in failing to award general damages to child who presented unchallenged evidence that he suffered minimal pain for a short period of time
• \Passing treatment of an issue or lack of reasoned argument is insufficient to merit judicial consideration.\
• affirming jury’s denial of general damages where injuries were “minimal” and plaintiff required virtually no medical care
• criticizing Court of Appeals for “limit[ing] its analysis to whether the verdict was so inadequate as to indicate passion or prejudice . . . [without first addressing] whether there was evidence to support the verdict”
• upholding a jury’s verdict awarding only special damages of $34 to a car accident victim for the cost of a medical office visit when the record showed that his injuries were minimal and that he required no further medical care
• “the court can assume the jury failed to award damages for pain and suffering where the verdict is equal to or less than uncontroverted special damages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).